Lanny Davis Purple Nation Weekly

by Lanny Davis – 7/28/16 Day Two – Democratic Convention Diary On Tuesday night, President Clinton seemed to want to accomplish two things: First, to describe the real Hillary Clinton as a human being vs. the cartoon character, created in large part by hateful partisans and repeated endlessly and uncritically by the media; and second, […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/26/16 This is the second installment in a daily series chronicling contributor Lanny Davis’s experience at the Democratic National Convention as a Maryland delegation member of the Convention Credentials Committee. Read the first installment here. Sorry, Donald Trump, and all the hyped-up talking heads on cable media: The “controversy” and “division” […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/25/16 Philadelphia, July 23 – Arrived in Philadelphia about noon on Sunday at a meeting of the Convention Credentials Committee, of which I am a member. And it took about 5 minutes to pick up the general buzz, two questions I heard over and over again as we discussed the Republican […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/15/16 Hillary Clinton has acknowledged, with the wisdom of hindsight, that she made a mistake in using one device for sending personal and business emails rather than using two when she was secretary of State, and in sending all of her emails to a private server. I respect and agree with […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/12/16 All of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton‘s longtime friends share the same question, the same mystery, whenever we read about the number of people in America who “hate” her or who label her using various horrible expressions. It is this: How can they be so far off in understanding who […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/5/16 Senator Bernie Sanders certainly can’t seriously complain that there was anything “rigged” about the Democratic nomination – delegate selection procedures. Clinton won by a margin of almost 4 million popular votes and a substantial majority of all elected pledged delegates in the primaries and caucuses and in DC. Sanders and […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/1/16 Here we go again. The U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch, on Friday stated flat out, without qualification, that she would accept the recommendations of the FBI and not overrule it concerning whether any laws were possibly violated in Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server to store her personal and […]

by Lanny Davis – 6/24/16 While we in Washington are fixated on the upcoming presidential election, another critical election has just begun: the race for the United Nations secretary-general. Given that the U.S. is currently the largest funder of the U.N., providing 22 percent of the organization’s budget, this election deserves our attention. The U.N. […]

by Lanny Davis – 6/16/16 Throughout American history, there are pivotal moments where a leader of one of the two major parties rises up to put conscience and moral principles over party loyalty. One such moment for the Republican Party occurred on June 1, 1950. Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, the only woman in the […]

by Lanny Davis – 6/1/16 With all the hours of punditry and tens of thousands of words written about Hillary Clinton’s emails by the political press corps, it is amazing that the whole episode can be boiled down to five undisputed facts. First, the former secretary of State did nothing illegal by having a private […]